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Diplomats receive bodies of journalists killed in Syria

DAMASCUS - Diplomats in Syria on Saturday received the bodies US journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, who were killed last month during the shelling of the Baba Amro district of the city of Homs.
A Reuters witness said the diplomats, believed to be the French ambassador to Syria, Eric Chevalier, and a representative from the Polish embassy, which is managing US affairs in Syria, had taken the bodies from the Al-Assad University Hospital in Damascus.